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According to Exodus 12:37–38, the Israelites numbered "about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children", plus many non-Israelites and livestock. Numbers 1:46 gives a more precise total of 603,550 men aged 20 and up. It is difficult to reconcile the idea of 600,000 Israelite fighting men with the information that the Israelites were afraid of the Philistines and Egyptians.[43] The 600,000, plus wives, children, the elderly, and the "mixed multitude" of non-Israelites would have numbered some two million people.[44] Marching ten abreast, and without accounting for livestock, they would have formed a column 240 km long.[45] The entire Egyptian population in 1250 BCE is estimated to have been around three to 3.5 million,[46][44] and no evidence has been found that Egypt ever suffered the demographic and economic catastrophe such a loss of population would represent, nor that the Sinai desert ever hosted (or could have hosted) these millions of people and their herds.[47] Some have rationalised the numbers into smaller figures, for example reading the Hebrew as "600 families" rather than 600,000 men, but all such solutions have their own set of problems.
Just focus on the bits which line up with what you already think and ignore the rest.Source: Every other religious person ever.
Quote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:38:15 pmJust focus on the bits which line up with what you already think and ignore the rest.Source: Every other religious person ever.But doing that would be willful ignorance.
Quote from: Jacob Harrison on October 20, 2018, 08:56:45 pmQuote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:38:15 pmJust focus on the bits which line up with what you already think and ignore the rest.Source: Every other religious person ever.But doing that would be willful ignorance.Then for you, it should be a breeze!
Quote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:58:32 pmQuote from: Jacob Harrison on October 20, 2018, 08:56:45 pmQuote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:38:15 pmJust focus on the bits which line up with what you already think and ignore the rest.Source: Every other religious person ever.But doing that would be willful ignorance.Then for you, it should be a breeze!It won’t because I always like pursuing knowledge. I thought that the evidence was in favor of Christianity. Since you were raised Catholic, did you have a spiritual crisis like mine?
Quote from: Jacob Harrison on October 20, 2018, 09:28:03 pmQuote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:58:32 pmQuote from: Jacob Harrison on October 20, 2018, 08:56:45 pmQuote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:38:15 pmJust focus on the bits which line up with what you already think and ignore the rest.Source: Every other religious person ever.But doing that would be willful ignorance.Then for you, it should be a breeze!It won’t because I always like pursuing knowledge. I thought that the evidence was in favor of Christianity. Since you were raised Catholic, did you have a spiritual crisis like mine?Yes!
Quote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 09:41:14 pmQuote from: Jacob Harrison on October 20, 2018, 09:28:03 pmQuote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:58:32 pmQuote from: Jacob Harrison on October 20, 2018, 08:56:45 pmQuote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on October 20, 2018, 08:38:15 pmJust focus on the bits which line up with what you already think and ignore the rest.Source: Every other religious person ever.But doing that would be willful ignorance.Then for you, it should be a breeze!It won’t because I always like pursuing knowledge. I thought that the evidence was in favor of Christianity. Since you were raised Catholic, did you have a spiritual crisis like mine?Yes!I'm sure he could use your advice in these trying times.
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.
Oh boo hoo you lost your imaginary friend. Welcome to turning, what, six?As for your parallel self, how do you know the Bible (or equivalent) in that alternate reality doesn't have contradictions?
It's also fiction.I know, it's harder for people raised religious to distinguish reality and fiction.
Quote from: dpareja on October 22, 2018, 09:04:47 pmIt's also fiction.I know, it's harder for people raised religious to distinguish reality and fiction.But remember how I said before that I was visited by my parallel self from that universe, revealing that it is true. Advanced time traveling aliens read Parallel Hero and went back in time to cause a split in the timeline to create a universe where the events of Parallel hero are true.
The information I found proving that the Bible has errors in it is a huge crisis for me because the Christian God was one of my best friends, and now I am not sure if he exists in this universe. I envy my parallel self from parallel hero who lives in the parallel universe where he does exist.
